Iran Holocaust Denial--Rewriting history to suit their political ends

In a collective display of defiance against Iran’s “Holocaust” conference, over 60 Holocaust survivors in the U.S. and Canada today gave accounts of what they had to live through and what they saw under the Nazi regime. Iran’s conference, which included such Holocaust deniers and revisionists as David Duke and Robert Faurisson, comes a year after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared the Holocaust was a ‘myth.’  To counter this, the Simon Wiesenthal Center gathered together survivors who were linked by videoconferencing between the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and Tolerancenter in New York and Center offices in Toronto. In addition, the Center received pages of testimony via fax and e-mail.

“It wasn’t enough that their loved ones were murdered in the death camps, now they have to prove to Ahmadinejad they are not liars,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center. “As one of today’s survivors put it, ‘If the Holocaust was a myth, where is my sister?’” Hier added.

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